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Pet Sounds
Artist : The Beach Boys
List Price : $17.98 USD
Your Price : $10.97 USD
ProductGroup: Music
Release Date : 1999-07-13
Studio : Capitol
Label : Capitol
Avg. Customer Rating :  (346 reviews)
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Difficult to overrate
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It's really difficult to overrate 1966's "Pet Sounds". Aside from its influence on other musicians ("God Only Knows" spurred on Paul McCartney, for example, in the game of one-upmanship between the Beatles and the Beach Boys during the late '60s), it remains, quite simply, one of the most enjoyable pop albums ever released--like your favorite cold beverage on a very hot day. Even the two instrumentals, "Let's Go Away For Awhile" and "Pet Sounds", fit into the sequencing perfectly. The other Boys may not have grasped exactly where Brian Wilson's head was at (there's not a single car or surfing song on the entire record), but they deliver vocally--listen to Carl Wilson's lead on "God Only Knows", and Mike Love's backing on "Wouldn't It Be Nice." (If you want to spend a few more bucks, buy the "Pet Sounds Sessions" box, which contains outtakes demonstrating Brian's total control in the studio.) Not only the best album by this vital group, but, quite simply, one of the very best pop albums ever made.
Customer Reviews for Pet Sounds Cd
Ying/Yang
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Pet Sounds is easily one of the most revered albums in the history of pop music, but does it deserve to be revered? Heck no. Pet Sounds, for me, is terrible and legendary. What, you say, well Finulanu kind of went through the same thing with his review of White Light/White Heat. Here it goes, courtsey of Finulanu, Untitled 1 (U1), who hates everything about it, and Untitled 2 (U2) who loves everything about it. The two can't be countered or silenced, which sucks cause I can't enjoy this all the way. OH well. Anyway...
U1: Pet Sounds is extremely overrated. Brian Wilson is a little whiner who can't shut up and it ruins the entire thing. Forget the subpar music that probably wasn't even made by him, Tony Aster or whatever the idiots name get songwriting credits. What are they hiding, anyway?
U2: Oh, like it's just Aster's record. So what about the lyrics? Just because they aren't Sesame Street? Does some of the instrospection hurt you? And the music, just listen to the orchestration.
U1: Good one, U2. Carolina No is said to be about Brian Wilson whining about how Carolina cut her hair, written by Aster. You call that introspection? And I listened, it's pop music with more instruments.
U2: Pop music with more instruments? Or you mean lush instrumentation with a pop vibe. I thought you liked that stuff, Mr. I like pop goodness. And did I say all of the music is introspective? no. Besides, hair might reflect something like a cult, you never know.
U1: Please, stop trying to feel deep. I hate people like you. Brian Wilson could easily change his mindset and not think this way. For all of the whining and lyrics, he can change what he's whining, feel he's made for these times. He's in control, and he chooses this whiny lyrics.
U2: How do you know he's in control? Some people have defects in their brains! They can't get that component back that easily, you know. People are different. Besides, things in the mind that trouble don't also go away easily. He's confronting the problems in his minds, and that just might make him dispell them so he can get it out and go on and recover.
U1: Knowing that there are better things and that he can use those to get over the problems and become stronger can be done as well. Why go th rough the inner parts. Who says that he automatically is going through that and what you said above is affecting him?
U2: Your right, it might not. But how do you know your opinion would work best for him. YOu don't.
U1: That's why I choose not to hear the whining. Well, I hope there is one thing I agree on, the instrumentals are nice.
U2: Okay fine, there's one thing. Now get out of here, you loser. Just for arguing with me, you have been doing introspection in one way, by the way.
U1: Your a loser too. And nice introspection!
To be continued? Don't get me started.
Well, Pet Sounds should at least be listened to, definitely. You may end up really liking it, you may think it's overrated. I don't know, but it's drastically hard to choose one view on this record.
PS Any comments on this review will not be read, as for everything else. So let me say thanks to all kind comments, now, before, and ahead. All other stupid/rude/I don't like you because you don't like Radiohead trite, no thanks to your sir.
Grades: 1 out of 10/9 out of 10, which in total, is a 5/10.
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